The King County Superior Court, which recently moved off of the State’s legacy case management system, SCOMIS, in favor of a platform from Journal Technologies called KC-JAMS, has made a name change! Due to a potential lawsuit from another entity called JAMS, King County decided to switch to the...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s child protection law does not extend to fetuses or the unborn; consequently, they are excluded from being considered victims of parental neglect. From the The Morning Call: “The Supreme Court’s main opinion said the law’s definition of a child does...

Pacific Gas & Electric’s alleged liability in starting a disastrous wildfire that ravaged California in late 2018 may be exacerbated by a previous criminal sentence. PG&E was placed on five years of probation in 2017 after a criminal conviction stemming from the 2010 explosion of one of its natural...

The Washington State legislature passed Senate Bill 6037, a revision of The Uniform Parentage Act, in early 2018 and which will go into effect on January 1st, 2019. The revision of the law “necessitates changes to King County family law procedures and the creation of new case types. The...

The Supreme Court of Florida has ruled that in addition to established police self-defense laws, Law Enforcement Officers can now as well rely on the immunity from prosecution protections of the ‘Stand Your Ground’ doctrine that had previously only been available to civilians. In a 7-0 decision, the Justices...

The Oregon Supreme Court affirmed an earlier ruling which found that interview and interrogation techniques used to elicit murder confessions from a mentally-ill suspect undermine the credibility of the confessions, thus making them inadmissible. From Oregon Public Broadcasting: “Homer Lee Jackson is charged with 12 counts of aggravated murder....

When the King County Superior Court’s court records system switched from Washington State’s legacy SCOMIS system to the King-County-only JAMS system, the switch effectively terminated all new King County case data from being entered into the statewide SCOMIS Names Index. CourtTrax provides access to this Names Index using the...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a man who was diagnosed with cancer, which he claims resulted from his years of working as a firefighter. The ruling places the burden of proof on his former employer to show that the cancer was not the result of...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has found that 20,667 breathalyzer tests conducted from 2008 – 2016 are inadmissible, and consequently an equal number of drunk driving convictions are at risk of being overturned as a result. From the Tampa Bay Times: “The unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court stems...

CourtTrax Corporation is excited to announce that we have expanded our services into the State of Pennsylvania! For our users needing Pennsylvania court information, we now provide electronic access to Bucks, Delaware, Lancaster, and Montgomery County court records! CourtTrax users now have the ability to conduct Name and Case...

In a case that was being watched as a potential point of precedent in our social media dominated world, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that lawyers being associated with judges via social media platforms such as Facebook does not constitute a conflict of interest in and of itself,...

On Thursday, November 8th, 2018, we received notice from the King County Superior Court that they would be transitioning from the legacy SCOMIS system by transferring their case data management onto a new system from Journal Technologies called JAMS. This transition was to take place over the weekend, and...

The Arizona Court of Appeals Division II has ruled that a search warrant is still valid even if it does not contain the correct address of the location to be searched. In the appeal of Arizona v. Lohse, it was argued in part that since a search warrant obtained...

The 2018 National Federation of Paralegal Association Convention, held this year at the Seattle Airport Hilton, was both fun and productive! We enjoyed meeting and speaking with everyone who stopped by our booth to find out more about CourtTrax and our extensive experience in the aggregation of court data...

Our users in California may find this interesting. The State of California has decided to delay the implementation of its own recently passed Net Neutrality legislation in order to allow a final decision to be reached in a federal lawsuit against the Trump Administration. Oral arguments are scheduled for...

Our Alaskan users might find this interesting. The Alaska Superior Court has found that a Kenai Peninsula Borough’s policy on holding religious invocations at their assembly meetings violated the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. From KTUU 2: “The policy said invocations could only be delivered by chaplains serving...

In a 4-3 decision, the Justices of the Florida Supreme Court overturned a ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeals, and reinstated an $8 million verdict awarded in an asbestos lawsuit. The court found that the standard by which expert witness testimony is weighed in Florida – the...

In a five-justice majority opinion, and the four other justices concurring, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the Death Penalty is unfairly imposed “in an arbitrary and racially biased manner.” Consequently, given what they cited as the flawed nature of State laws permitting death as a punishment...

The Washington State 2nd Division Court of Appeals has affirmed a fine of $319,281 against an anti-GMO group, saying that a lack of intent does not constitute a defense for withholding the public disclosure of donor names. From CapitalPress.com : “In a 2-1 ruling, the court rejected Food Democracy...

A Federal Judge has ruled that Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have evolved to become commodities by definition, and are thus subject to oversight and regulation by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The ruling stems from a case involving “My Big Coin,” a platform that claimed to manage a legitimate cryptocurrency,...

The latest and likely final pair of Washington State counties to transition their court records management to the Odyssey System is coming later this fall. Of the 39 counties in Washington State, only four have not yet made the transition to Odyssey from the state’s legacy system, SCOMIS: King,...

With the rising ubiquity of part-time rental bike and scooter services, a different category of motor vehicles is occupying the streets and sidewalks, bringing to their operators all the same responsibilities of driving an automobile. Accordingly, Los Angeles has had its very first ‘Scooter DUI’ conviction. From Bloomberg:...

The Idaho State Judiciary will be completing the transition of their county courts to the new Odyssey system on October 9th, 2018. Once this transition is complete, the new counties will be available immediately on CourtTrax for name and case number searches. The counties that will be available in...

CourtTrax is Coming to the NFPA Annual Convention! We are excited to be attending the 2018 National Federation of Paralegal Association’s Annual Convention and Policy Meeting at the Seattle Airport Hilton on October 25-26! We will be showcasing our products and services, as well as giving our visitors...

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled to keep confidential the name of a doctor scheduled to attend an upcoming lethal injection execution. The lawsuit, brought by three pharmaceutical companies whose drugs are to be used in the execution, actually welcomed the ruling though it went against them. From ABC...

In addition to our comprehensive suite of search tools, CourtTrax also provides its users with several other resources for those interested in the legal goings-on in the world. The most active of these appear under “News Feed”. When you are logged into your CourtTrax account and want to see...

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against Richard Hosang, a former stock broker with known connections with the mafia, regarding a series of websites that falsely associate themselves with legitimate charitable organizations. From The Office of the Washington State Attorney General: “Hosang created six nonprofit...

Lawyers and legislators in Oregon are arguing that the state’s sentencing guidelines regarding juveniles convicted of murder are in violation of the Constitution. From NPR: “Attorneys and lawmakers in Oregon say the state is violating the U.S. Constitution because of laws that require juveniles convicted of murder to be...

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill into law that, beginning in October 2019, will eliminate bail for suspects awaiting trial. Each county will be responsible for creating their own procedures to determine who will and will not be released ahead of trial. Supporters of the new law...

A group of young activists filed a lawsuit to force Washington state to reduce greenhouse emissions has been dismissed. King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott sided with the state in the matter, writing that while climate change is a legitimate concern, it should be addressed through legislative action,...

What constitutes a conflict of interest in the digital age? That is the question currently before the Florida Supreme Court in a case where a social media connection raises a concern over how much weight a ‘Facebook friend’ has in relation to a ‘real life friend’. From the National...

The Attorneys General of New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia have all asked a U.S. appeals court to reinstate Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality...

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that tracking sex offenders for indefinite time periods via GPS ankle monitors amounts to an unreasonable search and is a violation of the Fourth Amendment. From WSPA.COM : “A 2015 United States Supreme Court ruling in Grady v. North Carolina considered the question...

The National Center for State Courts recently made available their “Judicial Salary Tracker”, which allows the public to find out the salaries of their Local and State justices: “The Survey of Judicial Salaries, published for over 40 years by the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) with the support...

The 11th Judicial Circuit of Florida’s Juvenile Court has created the GRACE Court (Growth Renewed through Acceptance, Change and Empowerment) to address the needs of young survivors of human-trafficking. From 2007 – 2017 there were 2,940 cases of human trafficking reported in Florida. Human-trafficking is described by the National...

Effective July 1st, 2018, a new Virginia law gives the public broad access to Virginia criminal records. From The Daily Press: “The law allows people to make requests for bulk data to the Office of the Executive Secretary, which has to fulfill the request in 30 days. Names, birthdays...

The New Jersey State Judiciary has released a report which finds that the Municipal court Judges, who draw their income from the courts coffers, often abuse the application of punishments of fines and fees for personal gain. From NJ.com : “ found that abuse of laws allowing local...

This summer has seen the spread of a friendly competition between police departments all across the country: who can create the best lip-synch performance of them all? It began with the Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff’s Office in June posting a video of an Officer giving his take on “Fuiste...

Since April of this year, the State of Idaho has acknowledged that ever since the release of the Idaho “iCourt” Portal, the system has experienced multiple slowdowns, errors, and outages that the CourtTrax team has promptly and reliably alerted our customers to. “If you have attempted to search the...

We are excited to announce that access to Harris County, Texas District Court has been restored! Registered CourtTrax users can resume conducting name and case number searches in Harris County. Additionally, access to electronic document images has also been added to the CourtTrax interface! Users can now purchase document...

Since 2010, the California court system has paid out $348,750 to settle five sexual discrimination claims, and $296,660 to settle sexual harassment claims. The California court system additionally paid out $160,000 to settle three claims that did not involve either sexual harassment or discrimination, but rather dealt with the...

On June 26th, 2018, The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) announced a partnership with Measures for Justice – a non-partisan nonprofit with a mission to bring transparency to local criminal justice systems – to work towards creating an extensive set of standards for state and local court data....

Several changes took place in the Los Angeles Superior Court in the springtime; changes which are still causing issues in knowing exactly where to file certain documents. On April 16th, 2018, the Spring Street Courthouse became home to the Complex Litigation Program which was previously located at the Central...

The seventh phase of the transitions of the Washington State Superior Courts data to the new Odyssey system continues on Monday, June 4th as twelve more Superior Courts make the move. They are: Adams Benton Chelan Douglas Ferry Grant Kittitas Lincoln Okanogan Pend Oreille Stevens Walla Walla That will...

On March 21st, 2018, the seven Judges of the Franklin County Superior Court filed suit against the Franklin County Clerk, Mike Killian, over issues related to the adoption of the Odyssey Case Management System. An article from the Tri-City Herald on March 21st reads, in part: “When the office...

Oftentimes, the manual retrieval of court documents can be a bit like a treasure hunt. Each courthouse is different: different rules, different policies, different staffers who are the ones you need to talk to in order to locate a case file from seven years ago. And in California, it...

On April 6th, the King County Recorder’s Office issued the following notice: “With the passing of House Bills 1570 and 2578, Washington State will be increasing recording fees effective June 7th, 2018. For all documents not exempted from homeless housing fees this will be a $25 increase and...

CourtTrax Corporation is excited to announce that we have expanded our services in the State of California to include electronic access to Santa Barbara County Superior Court records! CourtTrax users now have the ability to conduct Name and Case number searches in Santa Barbara County. Coverage Serving a population...

The collection and redistribution of personal data and search activity online is becoming a hot topic these days. And at CourtTrax, our users’ privacy has always been of primary concern. Accordingly, we just wanted to provide a quick review of what we do, and what we will never do...

Thanks to updates from the Butte County Superior Court, CourtTrax is now able to deliver Probate and Family case record information! Combined with existing access to Civil and Criminal records, CourtTrax can now provide its customers a more enriched profile of information from Butte County, California. Coverage The Superior...

The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) has undertaken the task of moving the various county courts off of the old SCOMIS system and onto a more modern platform for case management. Many counties have elected to adopt the Odyssey system offered by the AOC. But one...

The Idaho State Judiciary has updated their release schedule, and they will be completing the transition of another batch of counties to their new Odyssey system in April 2018. Once this transition is complete, the new counties will be available immediately on CourtTrax for name and case number searches....

CourtTrax Corporation is pleased to announce that we have expanded our services to include electronic access to Idaho District & Magistrate Court records from the following counties: Ada, Blaine, Boise, Camas, Canyon, Cassia, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, Owyhee, Twin Falls and Valley. The State of Idaho is currently...

As a customer-driven company, we approach each New Year considering what we can do to make our user experience better than it was in the year previous. While we have our own thoughts and ideas, what really matters is what our customers need, and where they would like us...

Whether you’re a first time user needing help navigating the CourtTrax interface, or a returning veteran who just needs a refresher course or assistance with our more advanced features, we are here to help. We offer live, over-the-phone training sessions for our customers, free of charge. A quick...

CourtTrax Corporation is proud to announce the release of our upgraded access to San Francisco County, CA Superior Court Records! The San Francisco Superior Court serves the over 850,000 residents of San Francisco. The court provides Civil case information and electronic document images for public access. Our upgraded service...

As a web-based service provider, we are very attentive to how CourtTrax operates with the most popular web browsers. However, when a certain brand or version of a web browser ceases to be supported or updated by its creator, the evolution of our product can quickly outpace the capacity...

The sixth phase of the transition of the Washington State Superior Courts data to the new Odyssey system continues on Monday, October 30th as seven more Superior Courts make the move. They are: – Clallam – Island – Jefferson – Kitsap – San Juan – Skagit – Whatcom. That...

CourtTrax Corporation is proud to announce the release of our upgraded access to Clark County, NV Superior Court Records! The Eighth Judicial District Court serves the over 2 Million residents of Clark County, including Las Vegas and the surrounding suburbs. The court provides Civil, Family, Probate, and Criminal case...

CourtTrax Corporation is proud to announce the release of our upgraded access to Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court Records! The Maricopa Superior Court serves the over 4 Million residents of Maricopa County, including Phoenix and the surrounding suburbs. The court provides Civil, Family, Probate, and Criminal case information for...

Beginning in late October, the King County District Court will be transitioning away from the JIS-Link System into it’s own, independently operated case management system. The details of how this transition will be implemented, how the new system will operate, and when the project will be completed are all...

CourtTrax Corporation is pleased to announce the oncoming return of access to Maricopa County, Arizona Superior Court Records! Changes at the court had temporarily disabled our ability to access the data, but we have since upgraded our system to accommodate for those changes. The Maricopa Superior Court serves the...

CourtTrax Corporation is pleased to announce that it will soon be expanding its services to include electronic access to District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) Superior Court records. Coverage Serving a population of over 680,000 people, the Superior Court of the District of Columbia makes publicly available Civil, Criminal, and...

The Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts has published an announcement regarding changes in data availability regarding participant address information and the dates of birth for minors: “Because the case management systems cannot determine if the addresses entered into the systems are from a confidential information form, the...

As of September 1st, 2017, the Oregon Judicial Department will be implementing new access fees for commercial use of the Oregon Judicial Case Information Network (OJCIN), via the OECI/Odyssey online platform. For all business entities there will be a one-time, non-refundable fee of $150 to establish a primary account....

CourtTrax’s CaseWatch feature allows you to be alerted when new activity occurs on any court case initially retrieved with CourtTrax and which are present in your Saved Search Results. With CaseWatch, a “watched” case is re-run at the court by your specifications: daily, weekly or monthly. You will receive...

We have updated our homepage with a new registration form, so that those currently without a CourtTrax account can sign-up and begin conducting name and case number searches across all of our available jurisdictions more quickly than ever before! Our secure form can be filled-out in just a couple...

In a world that never stops moving, and most especially with a new Presidential Administration and its accompanying changes to national policy and law, keeping track of what is going on beyond the filters of the mainstream media is of great interest to our users. Accordingly, we have implemented...

Due to an overwhelming interest by our users regarding the judicial challenges to the Trump Administration’s travel ban Executive Order, we would like to provide our users a direct link to the case as it currently stands: STATE OF WA; STATE OF MN v DONALD J TRUMP As the...

We have made a small but useful enhancement to CourtTrax saved searches to more clearly alert our users to the status of their work. Now, any new search you launch will appear in your saved search list in bright blue text, and will remain so until you review it...

Despite the massive strides the State of Oregon has taken to bring their court operations into the 21st Century of late, no amount of technology will ever fully remove the necessities of human interaction with paperwork. Consequently, when case documents are ordered for manual retrieval from any of the...

Did you know the Washington State Appellate Courts has a notification mailing list that you can sign up to, for free? Within 30 minutes of an opinion being filed in the State Supreme Court, or any of the Court of Appeals Division I, II, or III, you will receive...

The Oregon Judicial Department has issued the following notice, reproduced below, regarding scheduled maintenance that will be taking place this weekend. During the stated period, CourtTrax searches to the Oregon State Courts will be unavailable. Once the maintenance concludes, access to Oregon case data through CourtTrax will immediately resume....

One of the features of the CourtTrax interface our customers find most useful is the ability to add notations to their completed searches for later reference. Doing so is as easy as a couple of clicks of your mouse. Firstly, find the completed search you want to add a...

The latest release of the CourtTrax (CTX) portal was deployed on October 26th and is now live for use by our customers. This release comes with the new feature of Washington State ‘Hybrid Reports’, which combine the data from both the SCOMIS and Odyssey systems into one comprehensive report...

Recently, the King County Electronic Court Records (ECR) system began making available documents known as “Clerk’s Papers.” This relatively ambiguous title can be attached to a document or set of documents that can be individually comprised of several hundred, to several thousand pages. So what are they, exactly, and...

NOTICE -Newly Released Odyssey Courts have Incomplete case information for Washington Superior Court case reports.
Complete case information is now available in CourtTrax's Hybrid Washington Superior Court Case Detail Report.
In March of 2016, the Washington State AOC (Administrative Office of the Courts) notified SCOMIS/JISLink (SCOMIS) subscribers that there was “Possible...